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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: RoboCop (2014)

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48& (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: José Padilha
Written By: Joshua Zetumer
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop – is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Knights of Badassdom

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Kevin Dreyfuss and Matt Wall
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Danny Pudi, Margarita Levieva and Summer Glau
Studio: Entertainment One Films

Synopsis: KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM follows three best friends (Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn and Ryan Kwanten) and dedicated LARPers (Live Action Role Players) as they take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario fresh out of the mythical Middle Ages. Trouble arises after they unwittingly conjure up some serious evil in the form of a blood-lusting Succubus, from the pits of hell. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nurse 3-D

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Douglas Aarniokoski
Written By: Douglas Aarniokoski and David Loughery
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson and Corbin Bleu
Studio: The Film Arcade

Synopsis: By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins…using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: Zombeavers

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ZOMBEAVERS is an action-packed horror/comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Lego Movie

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95% (Critics) / 93%% (Audience)
Directed By: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Written By: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Starring: Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman and Will Ferrell
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: An ordinary LEGO mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary Master Builder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Stalled

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 36% (Audience)
Directed By: Christian James
Written By: Dan Palmer
Starring: Dan Palmer, Antonia Bernath, Tamaryn Payne |
Studio: Uncork’d Entertainment

Synopsis:A janitor gets trapped in a women’s restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: Maleficent

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The “Sleeping Beauty” tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Justice League – War

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva
Written By: Heath Corson
Starring: Sean Astin, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Gorham, Alan Tudyk, Shemar Moore and Jason O’Mara
Studio: Warner Home Video

Synopsis:Based on the graphic novel by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, seven heroes must band together for the first time to stop an alien invasion. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: Dead Snow 2

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If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning. – IMDb

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Remake Rumble: Flowers In The Attic (1987) vs Flowers In The Attic (2014)

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The 411: This psychological thriller, based on the popular 1979 V.C. Andrews novel of the same name, focuses on the four Dollanganger children and their mother who find themselves having to move into their wealthy grandparents estate after their father dies suddenly. Once at their grandmother’s house the children are imprisoned in the attic which is just the start of the cruel treatment they receive from the religiously fanatical old woman.

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My 2014 Oscar Nominations Snubs

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Let me preface this list by saying that The Academy got a lot right with their nominations this year and I understand how tough it was because this was a particularly good year in film with some amazing movies and even more amazing performances being delivered to theaters in 2013. However that does not mean that The Academy is immune from criticism or that this humble blogger does not think he knows better than people who work in the industry when it comes to picking who should be in the running to get a shiny gold naked man statue. So … Continue reading My 2014 Oscar Nominations Snubs

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jack Ryan – Shadow Recruit

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Written By: Adam Cozad and David Koepp
Starring: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis:Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. (Source)

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